New York Public Library Books of the Century

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The following is a complete list of the titles included in the exhibition Books of the Century at The New York Public Library’s Center for the Humanities, May 20, 1995-July 13, 1996, and in The New York Public Library’s Books of the Century. The books are divided into:

  • Landmarks of Modern Literature (1-24)
  • Nature’s Realm (25-34)
  • Protest & Progress (35-49)
  • Colonialism and Its Aftermath (50-66)
  • Mind & Spirit (67-81)
  • Popular Culture & Mass Entertainment (82-99)
  • Women Rise (100-110)
  • Economics & Technology (111-121)
  • Utopias & Dystopias (122-134)
  • War-Holocaust-Totalitarianism (135-152)
  • Optimism-Joy-Gentility (153-167)
  • Favorites of Childhood and Youth (168-175)

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  1. 1.
    Three Sisters: A Play
    by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  2. 2.
    Remembrance of Things Past Vol.I, II & III
    by Marcel Proust
  5. 5.
    Renascence And Other Poems
    by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  6. 6.
    The Wild Swans At Coole
    by W. B. Yeats
  8. 8.
    The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions)
    by T. S. Eliot
  9. 9.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce
  10. 10.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann
  11. 11.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  12. 12.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf
  14. 14.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright
  15. 15.
    The Portable Faulkner (Penguin Classics)
    by William Faulkner
  16. 16.
    ?
    The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue
    by W.H. Auden
  17. 17.
    Waiting for Godot
    by Samuel Beckett
  18. 18.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison
  19. 19.
    Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  20. 20.
    Fictions (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Jorge Luis Borges
  21. 21.
    On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac
  22. 22.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  23. 23.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth
  24. 24.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison
  25. 25.
    The Life of the Bee
    by Maurice Maeterlinck
  26. 26.
    ?
    Treatise on Radioactivity
    by Marie Curie
  28. 28.
    A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
    by Roger Tory Peterson
  29. 29.
    A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation
    by Aldo Leopold
  30. 30.
    King Solomon's Ring: New Light on Animals' Ways
    by Konrad Lorenz
  31. 31.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson
  32. 32.
    ?
    Smoking and Health - Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service
    by EDUCATION, AND WELFARE U. S. DEPT. OF HEALTH
  34. 34.
    The Diversity of Life
    by Edward O. Wilson
  35. 35.
    The battle with the slum / by Jacob A. Riis.
    by Michigan Historical Reprint Series
  36. 36.
    The Souls of Black Folk (Norton Critical Editions)
    by W. E. B. Du Bois
  37. 37.
    The Jungle (Enriched Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair
  38. 38.
    Twenty Years at Hull House: With Autobiographical Notes
    by Jane Addams
  39. 39.
    ?
    The House on Henry Street (Philanthropy and Society)
    by Lillian D. Wald
  40. 40.
    The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (California Legacy Book)
    by Lincoln Steffens
  42. 42.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
  43. 43.
    Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
    by James and Walker Evans Agee
  44. 44.
    Strange Fruit
    by Lillian Eugenia Smith
  45. 45.
    ?
    Growing Up Absurd
    by Paul Goodman
  46. 46.
    The Fire Next Time
    by James Baldwin
  47. 47.
  48. 48.
  50. 50.
    Lord Jim: A Tale (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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southernbohemian

Changed... — 5 years ago

The Gilbert analysis of Ulysses to the actual book Ulysses.

Sep 09, 10:48AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

Perlle

corrections — 6 years ago

I found a lot of missing and incorrect versions and titles in the list. I went through the list comparison. It should be more accurate now.

Oct 09, 10:58AM | 1 comment | Reply to this



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